Firebird
$33.87
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2015
Summary
A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited.
Tia’s mouthy attitude and confident swagger mask the vulnerability in a fourteen-year-old girl whose tough start in life draws her to AJ. Older, good-looking and charismatic, he shows her a kindness that she’s never known. Kindness that comes with a price…
Phil Davies’ debut play Firebird premiered at Hampstead Downstairs, London, in 2015, in a production directed by Edward Hall, before t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848425309 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848425309 |
| Author: | Phil Davies |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 381g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Remarkably potent… what’s remarkable about Davies’s writing is how little it hectors and how lifelike it feels. It’s angry, it’s witty, it makes degradation vivid and infuriating’
‘Remarkably potent… what’s remarkable about Davies’s writing is how little it hectors and how lifelike it feels. It’s angry, it’s witty, it makes degradation vivid and infuriating’
* The Times *‘Short, sharp, and appropriately nasty… Davies’ writing also brims with a fierce energy’
* WhatsOnStage *‘Blisteringly intense… unforgettable’
* The Stage *‘A must-see… Davies perfectly captures the complexities of human relationships’
* Londonist *‘Powerful and harrowing… [a] gripping and highly emotive drama’
* The Reviews Hub *About The Author
Phil Davies
Phil Davies is a playwright and screenwriter.His debut play Firebird premiered at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs in 2015 and subsequently transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in the West End.Other theatre work includes the short play How To Not Murder (Arcola Theatre); Up the Dale (Royal Exchange Theatre and Queen Elizabeth Hall for Paines Plough); Adjusted (Interplay Europe, Utrecht) and The Makings (ATG, dir. Sarah Dickinson).For radio, he has written The Punjab (BBC Radio 4) and Girl X, a winner at the BBC’s 2016 Alfred Bradley Bursary Awards.He also works alongside Synergy Theatre Project developing scripts with inmates in prisons and Young Offenders Institutions.
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